Longballs Lift Louisville Over Tribe 4-1

Home runs by first baseman Kevin Barker, left fielder Danny Dorn and third baseman Adam Rosales accounted for all four of Louisville's runs as they went on to defeat Indianapolis 4-1 Saturday afternoon at Louisville Slugger Field.
The Bats improve to 5-5 overall and 4-4 at home, while the Indians fall to 3-7 on the season and 0-1 on the road. The win is the second straight for Louisville over Indianapolis and improves their overall record to 2-1 against the Tribe this season.
Just as in Friday night's contest, where the Bats jumped on the Tribe with four runs in the first two innings, Louisville again got off to a quick start, plating three of their four runs over the first two innings.
Rosales remained red hot against the Tribe, as he singled and scored on Barker's homer to deep center field in the first and later blasted a solo shot of his own to seal the deal for the Bats in the fifth. The Louisville third baseman now has five hits in 11 at-bats against the Tribe, including five runs and two of his team-best four home runs.
The two-run shot by Barker, that brought home Rosales in the first, was his first of the season and gave the Bats an early 2-0 lead. Following in Barker's footsteps, Dorn also connected on his first long ball of the season, when he launched a solo shot to right in the second inning to put the Bats ahead by three.
Louisville starter Ben Jukich (6.0 IP, 7 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 4 SO) turned in an excellent effort for a packed Louisville Slugger Stadium as he scattered seven Tribe hits and struck out four to pick up the win and improve to 2-0 on the season. After Juckich exited, the Bats bullpen was lights out as relievers Robert Manuel (1.0 IP, 2 SO) and Pedro Viola (1.0 IP, 1 SO), who each picked up holds, and Josh Roenicke (1.0 IP, 1 H, 2 SO), who picked up the save, combined to allow just one hit , while striking out five over three innings of work.
2B Brian Bixler plated the only run for the Tribe, when he drove home 3B Anderson Machado with a two-out RBI single in the third. Machado led off the inning with the Indians' International League best sixth triple of the season, a triple number that the Tribe did not reach until May 10 of last season.
Indianapolis RF Garrett Jones also extended his hitting streak to eight games with a two-out single in the sixth inning. During his streak Jones is batting .382 (13-for-34) with six runs, six RBI and three stolen bases.
Indians starter Virgil Vasquez (6.0 IP, 7 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 5 SO) struck out five over six innings, but fell victim to his Achilles heel of giving up the long ball and took the loss to drop to 0-1 on the season. RHP Juan Mateo relieved Vasquez and struck out two in two perfect innings of work.
Rosales (2-for-4, 2 R, 1 RBI), Dorn (2-for-3, 1 R, 1 RBI) and C Craig Tatum (2-for-3) all turned in multi-hit efforts the Bats, while only LF Jeff Salazar (2-for-4) managed multiple base knocks for the Tribe.
The clubs wrap up their four-game home and home series on Sunday at 1:15 p.m. RHP Sam LeCure is scheduled to start for Louisville, while RHP Jason Davis is expected to get the nod for Indianapolis.